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hi.’KJJwsrK* i VOLUME I. ro mt dm a wiaarcct- ova. e, wouaira MT «*ar, Mend, low tying Own, A wffltag vsanas at my feat, JMU taMw < nutooms one t as*, , |1 task lafaryeer greet teesm ayan, Whose tore and feral Souaga ahlea, Aad vendor vtar* tea dMraraaaa Lea Balaam I For all at gnnfi ifisi t Bore Meed Within myaatf or Soman kind - Mteb «v»aUy telonad and monad Tear fan tte baart and mind 0 tlMtln who late tad aartn arenes rtalbtetew heart which, leal and traa. Baare MaodatUp Wltboot and or boated, dnS knd tea prim tn/4a. | trust yon aa ItnuSttegtan; Mor areal icon, nor rood at pride, a. Mar beggary, nor Magana-ban, Oan more yon from m j aide I A. Sfty CTirietteai aaint ot old. As tenth M a lamb with ma, Bai rath jrtxu teothere bold. Moro playful than a frolic boy, Morejr refer.l than a ran Hart, By day and tdghl your aonatant joy To taterfl bad pteam mo vail 1 ateep yaaeten I apoa my hreert Th. while yea whine and Uok my head - , had than oar friendship la arwifuonak, l^) r.u C ' Ak> wwahip Ood ** ma, < WWBpy wtitin flgMpt—tor trod SrtlDafort, laaeo, diet ndm rite a feveeeswa. t ~ w HJn airier's Htery. engineer. Arway along te recent panic, I was . Hid 01 tailroa.l The railroad ootnpanlM were going under in all directions. Every day we beard of new failures, and quite often in a qiuu - -l» whies we Itmi expected it Oarread wax upon to OBe of the m<Jp«*MlitiaßM the nation , anbodr seemed tohave any feans that it would fail to survive the general smash-up; | hut yet I did not fully share in iho'gnu sral confidence. Wogee were cut down, arrearages collected, and a great many other little matters seemed to indicate to 'mt khat th? road had got into deeper water than was agreeable all around. Among other things, the master me chanic had told me in the spring that the company had ordered four first-qual ity Taunton engines for the fall passen ger business. The road was pat in the very best condition, and other prepara tions were made to ent down the time and put the trains through quicker than wae ever known liefore when the new *agjkes should come. Well, there was but one of the engines came. I said that there was but one engine name; but she was, in my opinion, alto gether the best sver turned out of the Taunton works, and that is saying as much as can be said of any engine. She was put in my charge immediately, with #ie anderstanding that she was mine. It was Saturday when she came out of the shop, and I was to take a special train up to Y The train was to carry up the President and several offi ces* of the road to meet some officers of snoQief’ road, which crosses ours there, and arrange some important business with them. I had no trouble at all is making my forty miles an hour going out. The engine handled herself meet beautifully. We were just holding up at Y when Aldrich, the Treasurer, who had ooms out cm the platform to put the brake on, ahppcd and fell. As we were still under good headway, ho a much injured and earned off to the i insensible. According to the President's direction, I switched off my **ll3, turned my engine and stood ready 40 back to 0 at a moment’s no- Aldrich’s presence wm of so much im partanoe that the bnaineae oonld not be *aasaoted without bun, so all those I had brought out, except the President Aldrich, went back to C on the * o’clock express train. Tbu was the regular train which was to pass over the road until next Monday Early in ths evening I left the machine in charge ®y fireman, and went over to an eat lr W-houae to see if I could not spend the bme more pleasantly than on my en- KAfia The hour- dragged thems<‘lv<* ,‘i T wm playing a gam* of ,<Mfou»oea the station agent wlw>n in in estate of *UMl»m»eut z ' ” Harry,” said he, “T want yon to put «*do4i< —at 12 o'clock. ” A* it was nearly 11 o'clock then, and the distance wm Mventy-five mdee. I ’bought be wm joking at first; but when f ' f J T m Columbia IWmfeer, wr> got outside the door he caught me by the am and hurried me along co fast that I aaw he wim in earnest. “ Harry,” said he, “if yon don't set me down in D——- at 12 o'clock, lam a ruined min, and thia road is a ruined roe.!, Aldnch is dead ; but he told me before he diet} that he had embezzled from time io time •500,000 of our money, and hie clerk j« to start with it on the 12 o'clock boat fnem C for Canada. If we don't have that money on Monday morning io make some paymenu with, the road goto into oth-r hand* ; and ts yon put me down in C at the right time, eo that I save my money, you shall have *5,000. Understand it, Harry •s,ooo." Os course, I understood it. I aaw now the reason why the wages had l>een cut down. I understood it all, and my blood boiled. I felt that I would save the road, if I lived, and told Roberta so. “Bee that you do it, Harry,” he re plied, aa be climbed up on the steps of the coach which was coupled to my engine. I sprung up oh to the footboard, got up the switch tender to help my fire man, opened the throttle, and, just as wo commenced moving, looked at my watch ; it was just 11 o’clock, so that 1 had one hour to make my seventy-five miles in. From Y to B there were few curves on the road, but there were several heavy grades. I was ]>er fectly acquainted with every rod of it, ao that I knew erectly what I had to encounter, and when I aaw how the en gine moved I felt very little fear for the result. The road for the first few milew was an air line, and so amrxitb that mv engine flew along with soarcely a per oeptible jar. I was so busy posting my wait up as to the amount of wood and ■water aboard, etc., that wo danced by the first station almost lieforo I was aware of it, having been five minutes out ?" ’ haying five miles uocemplishod. " Imu are losing tune 1” yelled a voioe from the coach. • I looked around, and there stood Rolverte with his watch in his hand. I knew vary well th.'t we would hare to increase our speed by some moans if we carried out our plans of reaching C by midnight, and looked anxious- ly around to see what 1 oould do to ao oomplish that purjioao. Blio was blow ing oft steam fiercely at 110 pound*, ao I turned down the valve to 200, for I knew we should need it all to make some of the heavy grades which lay between us and C . It was three miles to the next station. With the exception of a few curves, the track was as good as the last. Ab we darted around what com monly seemed a rather long curve at the station, but which at our rate of speed was short enough, I looked at my watch, and we had done it in two min ute* sad a half. ' “Gaining I” I shouted back to Bob arts, who was standing on the platform of the coach. " Look out for the heavy grades,” ha replied, and went inside the car. The next six miles rose gradually from a level to a ten-and-a-half-feet grade, the last of which lay between us and the station, -ly fireman kept her full, and now she liegan to get hot. The furnace drtar was red, and the steam raised continually, so thsf she kept her speed and passed the station like a streak of light in five minutes. Now camo nine miles like the last, over which she kept pace with her time, and passed the station in seven and a half minutes. Here for ten miles we had a twenty foot grade to encounter ; but the worst of it all was, at this place we would be obliged to stop for wood. I was just going to speak to Bolierta alx>ut it, when I looked around and aaw him tilling the tender from the coach with wood which hail l>een placed there before starting, while he bail gone after me. I believe wo would have gone these ten miles with the same speed aa before, but, through the careleeinewi of the tireman. the fountain-valve on the left hand side of the engine got opened, and the water rose in the boiler eo faet aa to run the steam down to 100 pounds be fore I discovered where the difficulty was. At first Roberts didn't appear to notice the decrease of speed, and kept at work at the wood aa for dear life. But presently he looked up, and, seeing (.hat the speed had decreased, he shouted: “ Harry, we are stopping !" am! than, coming over to where I was. he said . " Why, here we have been ten nnnute. on the last ten miles, ami I believe we will come to a deed stand if something u not done! The speed is continually What’s the matter ? ' f explained the cause. He was ap parantly aatisfi-1 with my explan-bon, Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia. HARLEM, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1881. and after having tied down the safety valve ha climbed over the temier, ex horting me to “ put her throne i, for God's sake, or w» are all beggars to gether.” . , Just then we passed the next station, having taken nine minutes for eight miles. We ware now more than half over the road, but we had lost nmrly ten minutes time and had only left twen ty-seven minutes to do thirty-seven miles in. I had shut the water off from both my pumps * little distance back when I ihaouvered what was the matter, and she was now making steam finely down a alight grade. From leas than 100, with which we started over that teu-utile stretch, she had 200 pounds be fore we finished it, and, aa the gauge in dicated no higher than that and aa the valve was tied down, I oould out tell how much over 200 pounds sho earned ; but she certainly carried none Isas the remainder of the journey. And well she might carry inch an enormoul head of steam, for after passing over that ten miles in eight minutes there lay ten miles of five-feet up grade and fourteen miles of twenty feet to the mile depress ion between us and 0 —, and it was now 13 minutes to 12 o'olook. Now the engine was hot in earnest The furnace door, smoke-arch and chim ney were all red, while she soetned to fly onward as if the very evil one him self operated her machinery. Hix min utes carried ns over that ten miles, and we darted by the last station that had lain between ns and 0 , Now we had fourteen miles to go, and my time showed fifty -three minutes past 11 o’clock. “If I live," said Ito myself. “I will make it" And we plunged down that twenty-foot grade with all steam on. Persons who saw the train rm that wild run said it was eo soon after they heard the first sound of her ap proach, when the strange object, which looked as if it wasa flame of fire, darted j by, and (hen the sound of ite traveling died away in the distance, that they i oould hardly convince tiiemselvre they had ready seen anything. It seemed Bx*A< Hie the creature of a wild dream Tfflnrrßhber reality. And now let mo tell you that no en gine ever beat the time we made on those fourteen miles. Those great wheel., seven feet in diameter, spun around so swift that you couldn't liegin to count the revolutions. The engine barely teemed to touch the track as she flew along ; and, although the track was aa true aa it was possible for it to be, she swayed fearfully, and sometimes nuule such prodigious jolts that it re quired considerable skill for one to keep his feet. No engine could hold to gether if crowded to a greater speed. Well, just aa I came to a standstill in the depot at 0 , the big clock boomed out 12, and ths steamlxiet was getting her steam on. Roberta got on board in time, and nothing to sfiarc. But he saved the money. He found it hid away in some old boxes, aa Aldnch had di rected him. itr:w arottr or Ltircoi.it. When Lincoln was practicing in the old Sangamon county Court House, in the days of the old-fashioned settees, a tall, slim lawyer, noted for wearing a very short coat, slid along on the seat to lie nearer the advocate addressing the jury. A protruding nail tore the seat of the lawyer's pantaloon* Obligixl to follow his opponent immediately, there wm no time to sew up the rent in the garment. A legal wag present wrote a ■ml.scription paper: “ We, the under 'vignod, agree to pay the sums set oppo hito to oiir several names for the purpose of purchasing Brother Brown a new pair of pantaloons." Several of the lawyers put down sums ranging from 50 cents to 10 cents. The paper was presented to Lincoln, who eat opposite the rear of the advocate, who, bending over in ges ticulation, made quite an exposure. Lincoln took out his pencil and wrote upon the paper: “I have nothing to contribute to the end in view. ' The lawyers roared with laughter; the Judge asked to sea the paper, when he, too, in turn, had to roar All this time the unconscious victim of the fun was igno rant of the cause of the laughter, and at last joined in the merriment Tmbbb ia a man m Brooklyn whs lives so fast that hs is now absolutely older than his father; and it is thought he will soon ovsrtsks his grandfisthsr His mother, a quiet, elderly lady, he hae left behind long ago, as well aa two old maidan aunts. Corrnrs are now maae out of psj>er We have seen a good many paper* which oould thus ba made at «km use in the world.— Philadelphia JVews. Coffins of paper would be very appropriate to for dead languages -(Jatahridp' Tr<h MM. PUCdSAffTRLKS. Aa wrra a woman, ao with a horse His back hair ia hie mane trouble. Tkb Knights of the Middle Ages are historically dark. Evmt Custom House clerk ought to know how to ad valorem. This, says the Atlanta Oonttihttion, is a good time to plant holiday adver tisements. Tn author of the “ Little Brown Jug" was probably in a jugular vein, when ho wrote sometime popular ditty. “Kimino your sweetheart," says a trifling young man, “is like eating soup with a fork ; it takes a long time to get enough.” A rotnio man in love is not neceeaarily a mathematician, but ia nearly always a sigh for her. If you can't cipher this out we sigh for you. "Ann seems to hinge on thia,'' re marked the lover when he proposed to his sweetheart while swinging on the gate in front of her house. Wnxtwomen fight a duel about a woman there is almost always, some where, a third man, who laughs heartily at their folly, and while risking nothing gains, perhaps, everything. It is now claimed that Baton pre vailed over Eve by imp-ortunity.— New Yorjc Herald. Has it been demon strated f— Omnmerclal Bulletin. Yea, it is the latest devil-epment.— Earl Marble. A Jsossr Cirr man in the act of ad ministering a hearty kick to his wife slipped and fell ao heavily as to fracture his leg in two places. Wtfb-beaters, see that your feet are well braced before beginning work. Bi'bakino of Mr. Forbes' lecture on “ Kings I Have Met," a Western paper says that some day ho will come across three kings and a pair of sevens, and then ho will learn something about the really great resources of this country. Miss Huaxa M Russaix, editor of the Duluth Weekly, says : “ Whan things go to D K how 0 D they become." The most C D thing we know of this sassoa is the Q cumber. Beware of it, Busis, or it will W up. Watch for it, wait for it, — PfA-k'» Sun. Art English magazine discourses on “Cheap Girl*” It says ; "No young man, not even the worst, wants any. thing to do with a cheap young lady.” This is a mistake. No matter how cheap a girl may be, her young man always thinks she is a “ little dear.” “ Put out your tongue a little fur ther,” said a doctor to a fair invalid. “A little further, if you please.” “Why, doctor, do you think a woman's tongue baa no end ?" said the gentle sufferer. "An end, perhaps, madam,” replied ths physician, " but no cessation.” Tub bashful young man who asked a tally on the beach if he " could see her home,” was much surprised to hear her reply ‘‘ that he could go up and sea it if bo wanted to, but she didn't think her a POLITK PKhPLK. The city of Lucknow, India, is re nowned for the politeness of its people, exceeding, it would seem, that of the French, who are generally regarded as the politest people in the world. A cor respondent, writing from the spot, gives a ludicrous illustration of the extent to which the natives carry their ideas of courtesy. Two native gentlemen, on thsir way to the railway station, acci dentally fell into a ditch. One would snpjKwe that both would have been on their feet in a twinkling ; but no, the law of pohteueas interfered, and one said to the other : “ When your Honor rises then I may get up.” “No, your Honor should get up first," replied the other “ Never , how oould I take precedence of your Honor ?" and thus the contest went on for an hour, it la firi, tteoauae neither gentleman would ooneent to violate the laws of good breeding ArtMICtriTVMtL ntT*LU9BltC*. The potato bug must hide his dimin ished head before the approach of th»> Cnooeru Asparagi. This is his swell name. When he is at boms tn hu ahirt sleeves be allows folks to call him aspar agus beetle. He is warranted to with stand the ravages of heat aad odd, rain, frost and snow, and attends to bn sin see with unfailing regularity aad on easy terms to large and small purchasers. Hs comes dressed in black, red and yellow, like a foreign prince M eiroaaoiowii, and tauons oa Pano green aad puces of al! kinds A ZtTMM OT CUtItCTtL A few of the broad distinctions of physiognomy depend on the forms ot ths features, but all its nicer ahadre have far more to do with expressions ; aad m this, indeed, the real character is often scan where the conformation of the features seems to contradict it. There are some general and well-known rules for the determination of phyatog nomical character, as far as it has to do with the shapes of the features; the aquiline nose and eye, for ins tan n. Ixv. long to the heroic class; thick lips to the sensual, aad thin to the saltish ; yet all these may be liable to many excep tions—the first certainly are; for Nel son, Wolfe, Turenne, and many other heroes had nothing of the eagle physiog nomy. It ia natural to associate beauty with goodness, and ugliness with wiok edneea; and children generally do thia. But an acquaintance with the world soon shows ua that bad and selfish hearts may be concealed under tho handsomest features, and the highest virtues hidden under the homeliest; and that goodness may even exiat with conformations of face absolutely ugly. We then begin to look for the character in ths expression rather than in the forms of the features, and to distinguish assumed expressions from natural ones ; and so we go on, aad, aa we grow older, become better physiognomiate, though we never arrive at the certainty of judg ment which seems not to be intended wo ever should.— Robert Lettie. Tux following advertisements are tak en from a Ban Francisco uowsjisper • “The gentleman who eat down on a cream pie in a Market atreet car is known to tho lady who had just purchased it, and, even though he may have no regard for the hungry orphans for whom it wiu< destined, he is urged at once to remit •1.50 and tho expense of this advertise merit to tho business office of this paper, to save tho exposure which will follow his disgusting conduct” Right under neath it this Janus of a journal evidently accepts the money of tho other side, aa tho subjoined will testify : “If tho slightly intoxicated lady who allowed a gwitleman to spoil a *lO pair of beaver pants by placing a lot of slush wrapped up in paper on tho seat ho was about to occupy does not immediately remit that amount to tho oars of A. 8., at thia of fice, a full account of tho affair will shortly be given to tho pveea. ” Maiw an old dog han more cur-age than the average man. |R°H A PERFECT BTRENOTHENER.A SURE REVIVER. 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Fittings, Globe and Cneck Valves, Whistle Gtagere, etev Iron and Brass Castings, G>n Kibe, Iron Fronts, Balconies and Feoee Railing. OKO. R. T.OMHART) Ar CO., FOREST CITY FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS, 1014 to 10JS FENWICK STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. the Water Tower] gfijr Repairing promptly dane at lowest ariose. Boi’er repairs of all kinds done promptly. decll-ly OPERA HOUSFGARDEN“ BEN NEISZ, PROPRIETOR. CHOO WINHB, LIQIORS AM) CIGAHB. PHILADELPHIA AHD CINCINNATI BEER. BROAD AND SLUM firßEETfi AUGUfiTA, G 4 ,aw 111 y TERMS-$lOO PER NUMBER 39. Hir ruriru. The writer of this communication has been a sufferer from hay fever periodi cally for the past twelve years—during half of which jienod she oould get no autiafactory relief. The intolerable itch ing of the eyelids and almost constant suceziug which charecteriaee tho com plaint in ite worst form she had to en dure until six years ago, when the fol lowing remedy was brought to her no tice in the colutuns of a newspaper: Into a fuur-ounre wide-mouth bottle, half fili<*d with cotton, and having a close stopper, put the following mixt ure : 2| drachma carbolic acid, • dnu-hins aqna ammonia (specific gravity 0.901), 5 drachms distilled Water, 7| drachms alcohol. Inhale through the nostrils. Thia mixture, being of a vola tile nature, must be kept as much m |xMsible from cxjKMuro in order to pre serve its strength and prevent too deep discoloration. It does not purport to be a ajw-cific, for that has not yet been dis covered, but it has proved iieelf a ready relief in tho case of tho writer and of many who have suffered in the sams way.—-Yew Fork .Stria ■xxmfxmo or mmutn a took A little leas than three years ago—ia Heptembcr, 1878— the entire issue of Louisville and Nashville stock was worti., at current prices, •3,041,100 ; a day or two ago, also at current priewe. it would have taken •19,190,000, and this after a stock dividend of 100 per cent. Rock Island, one of the steadiest of stocks, amid have been bought up en tire for •39,375,000 in 1878 1 now it would take •00,742,000 to buy the out standing stock. New Jeiaey Central, at the same time in 1878—and it wan not then at its lowest point—would have cost ffZ.TTB.SOO; to-day, with a heavier debt before it and very little increase tn property, •18,960,000 would be needed to buy it. Bimilar instances might be given without number, but these must suffice now. It will teas some pretty clone thinking to find out where all ths difference comes in. Ness Fork Utaphio. A I.ADT tells the Washington Repub lican something which ought to have remained a secret with her sex. It is that a woman, in choosing a lover, con siders a good deal more how the man will be regarded by other woman than whether aha loves him horeelf. A oxtboxb in New York, ft ia said, is able to make almost all the dishes of a complete bill of taro from a freak-killed